Good news for all you landlocked surfers living in the U.K.: A company by the name of Wavegarden has recently finished construction of Surf Snowdonia;
one of the world’s biggest artificial wave parks. Located in a small
mountain town in Wales, the massive facility is supposedly capable of
generating “the longest man-made surfable waves on the planet” — and it
just opened for business this month.
The park, which took about 10 years and $20 million to complete, is unlike any wave pool you’ve ever seen before. In addition to the fact that it’s far, far bigger than most other inland surf parks (approximately 387,700 square feet), it also generates waves in a completely different way.
To create these huge, barreling waves, the park uses Wavegarden’s patented “wavefoil” technology, which basically works like a giant underwater snow plow. This plow head moves along a submerged track that runs down the center of the pool. As it does this, the wavefoil’s shape causes two large, tubular waves to break away on either side of the central divider. Check out the video to see it in action.
